added blurb about password timeout

diff --git a/sudo.man b/sudo.man
index d20e1984643322e445cba6a953dfb224f903bb0f..05fdc8ca20856884f8cc38c3dd69b9eceafa7fe5 100644 (file)
--- a/sudo.man
+++ b/sudo.man
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ to 5 minutes).  By giving
 the
 .I -v
 flag a user can update the time stamp without running a command.
+The password prompt itself will also time out if the password is
+not entered with N minutes (again, this is defined at installation
+time and defaults to 5 minutes).
 
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 .I sudoers